When they returned to Li Shuanlai's cabin, Li Shuanzhu hurriedly helped him unload the firewood and put it away.
Li Shuanlai welcomed them into the house, turned on the charcoal stove, lit the fire, and the house slowly became warmer.
The group huddled in the cabin and couldn't help but look around.
Although the cabin is small, it has everything you need and is fully equipped with daily necessities.
There were animal skins hanging on the walls and on the small bed. There was a charcoal stove that I made myself with a chimney and a fire burning, making the cabin very warm.
"Dad! What happened?" At this time, a black-faced man walked in from outside.
Li Shuanlai's son Li Jingguo rushed over after hearing the news.
"It's okay!" Li Shuanlai said lightly.
"If you have anything to say, just ask the public security comrades!" Li Shuanlai asked everyone to sit on the bed or the small wooden stool, and then spoke again.
"Do you know Mei Yuexiang?" Zhou Tao took the nanmu box and asked while staring at Li Shuan.
"A Xiang? Where is she?" Li Shuanlai suddenly became excited and asked anxiously.
"So you know her?" Captain Wang confirmed again.
"I know her! I've been looking for her for more than 30 years! How could I not know her? Where is she? Is she doing well now?" Li Shuanlai asked one question after another with eyes full of expectation.
"Look at these!" Zhou Tao put the small wooden box on the kang, opened it, took out a letter and handed it to Li Shuan.
Li Shuanlai opened the letter with trembling hands.
Lai Ge:
I finally convinced the troupe owner. After one last performance, I can leave with a clear conscience. We don't have to elope! Our family of three can be reunited! Are you happy? I'll leave all this to you. You give it to the troupe owner. Redeem me, and I'll be free!
Mei Yuexiang
August 20, 1943
After reading the letter, Li Shuan looked up in confusion. "This is the letter she gave me back then, along with the money she asked me to redeem her. Where is she now? Why are these things coming to me now?!"
Li Shuanlai obviously didn't know what year it was. After all, the whole country had not been liberated at that time. Later, after Mei Yuexiang disappeared, he searched the entire town but couldn't find her.
It happened that at that time, the town was occupied by the Japanese, and the troupe quickly left the town. He thought Mei Yuexiang had to leave, so he waited in the forest where they had agreed to meet.
"She should be gone! We dug out bones and these things in the yard of Mr. Li's house, which is now the educated youth yard!" Zhou Tao stared at Li Shuanlai's face seriously, trying to see something from his expression.
"What? You mean... Ah Xiang..."
As Li Shuan spoke, he choked up and instantly burst into tears. The tears in his eyes wet the letter paper drop by drop.
"A Xiang..." Li Shuanlai murmured.
"Can I go see her?" Li Shuanlai said with trembling lips and tearful eyes as he looked at Zhou Tao and the others.
"Come with us!" Zhou Tao said seriously.
"Jingguo, let's go! Let's go see your mother!" Li Shuanlai followed Zhou Tao and the others out and said to Li Jingguo behind him.
"Dad! My mom? What's going on?"
As Li Shuanlai walked, he began to talk about his past with Mei Yuexiang.
Back then, Mei Yuexiang was the mainstay of the town's opera troupe. Li Shuanlai went to school when he was a child, but after his parents passed away, he had no choice but to work as a farmhand in the house of the wealthy Li to support his younger siblings.
Mr. Li and his mother both loved watching plays, and often asked Li Shuanlai to drive them to the town to watch plays. After a few visits, Li Shuanlai got to know Mei Yuexiang, the mainstay of the opera troupe. They fell in love with each other over time and became a couple.
It just so happened that at that time, the rich man Li also fell in love with Mei Yuexiang and wanted to make her his eighth concubine, but Mei Yuexiang naturally refused.
At that time, Mei Yuexiang was already pregnant, and the troupe owner found out. The troupe owner was helpless, but he was reluctant to give up this pillar of the troupe, so he helped to cover up the pregnancy until Mei Yuexiang gave birth.
Afterwards, Li Shuanlai brought Li Jingguo back home. The name was given by Mei Yuexiang. He said that he was a picked-up child and adopted him. Mei Yuexiang often came to visit them secretly.
On August 15th of that year, it was the 60th birthday of Mr. Li's mother, so they invited a troupe of opera performers to the village for a seven-day performance. However, the Japanese suddenly arrived in town, and the troupe left on the fifth day before the seven-day performance was complete, fearing they would not be able to leave.
At that time, the rich man Li also hurriedly packed up and wanted to leave the village as soon as possible, but for some reason, he later surrendered to the enemy and became a traitor, and was unable to leave.
At that time, Li Shuanlai and Mei Yuexiang had already agreed to leave here together. As a result, they waited for more than 30 years and never saw Mei Yuexiang again.
After Li Shuan finished speaking, everyone sighed.
The dark-faced man Li Jingguo couldn't help but wipe his tears.
The rest is definitely easy to deduce. Rich man Li must have harmed Mei Yuexiang back then. He originally wanted to leave the village and bury her and her belongings.
The valuables were also treated with anti-corrosion methods, probably because they thought they would come back when they had the chance and dig them out and keep them for themselves.
Although they didn't leave later, it was probably because they either forgot or felt that the situation was turbulent and it was safer to leave it underground, so they never dug it out.
It was not until after liberation that Li Caizhu, the traitor who collaborated with the enemy and sold out his country, was shot, and the matter was left unresolved.
If it weren't for those lazy guys in the Youth League Institute, this story would still be buried underground!
Zhou Tao and Sun Hai brought them to a slope in the shade of the West Mountain, where they dug away the unmelted snow, revealing the white bones beneath the snow.
"A Xiang! I'm here to take you home!" Li Shuanlai was not afraid at all. He put Mei Yuexiang's body into the cotton jacket he brought with him.
While cleaning up bit by bit, a ring with a small emerald was seen on the corpse's hand.
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